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POLYGONAL CONCRETE PILLBOX, SOUTH WEST FACING LISTED IN WILLS 1985 AS BEING AT SU 470671, PRESUMABLY ADJACENT TO THE LOCK. IS LISTED BY WILLS AS DESTROYED, AND IS NOT VISIBLE ON THE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. ROGER MILES DESCRIBES THIS AS INCORPORATED INTO BUILDING ON NORTHCROFT LANE. NGR SU47026719.
(Source: SMR )


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        Northcroft Lane, Newbury Lock, Newbury.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Newbury, Berkshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 4702 6719
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Unknown

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        [Unknown] ([Unknown])
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Newbury nodal point - The defences of Newbury on the GHQ Blue Line. The defences were developed as a nodal point because Newbury was considered an important centre of regional road communications (July 1940). During 1941 it was reclassified as a Category B anti-tank island. It is shown as an anti-tank island on the map of the 'Southern Command Home Defence Programme 1940' - PRO WO 199/48. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0015794

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Berkshire SMR (ref: 05046.02.050 - WB5627)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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